Awesome questions. The answer is that gravity is an illusion. What I mean by that is that gravity is not a fundamental force, it is a byproduct of mass creating space. There are no gravitons, there is only the shape of space.
I was the sort of person back in my early 20s who thought, "I can't imagine ever having children -- I mean, who would bring a child into a world that's so terrible?"
I feel guilty for bringing children into this world dominated by NSA spying, government corruption and conspiracy, and pollution of the climate. My children are looking at a terrible terrible future of enslavement while a select few end up partying and being irresponsible on my children's work.
Dual-boot is NOT where you want to go with a gaming machine, you'll be fighting drivers on the Linux side every time you get a fresh-off-the-shelf expensive hardware component.
No. You will only be fighting with drivers if you buy some odd cheap piece of garbage hardware. I have built my own PCs and have had zero problems with drivers for many years now.
My suggestion: build a Linux box with components that you know will work with Linux - for example, I stay clear of nVidia because many of those cards are a nightmare on Linux.
Share whatever you are smoking with the rest of us. The NVidia Linux drivers are the best out there other than the older Intel drivers... but Intel video is weak for gaming. Name the cards that you have had issues with if you want to be taken seriously and not a troll. I have run Linux with GTX980, GTX770, GTX260, and an 8800GTX over the past several years. I have had zero issues.
A lot of not very good engineers like these absolute answers and like things to be black or white. I run into them frequently. The worst is probably the IT security field, where things are often viewed as secure or not, with nothing in between.
To be fair, either you are dead or not... or the favorite from years ago, you are not just a little bit pregnant. You either are pregnant or you are not.
That being said, managing risk is a numbers game which is where the black and white people fail miserably. Which is essentially what you said. I am just trying to nuance the situation here a bit and point out why the infosec folks that are weak actually are weak.
Why is it that astrophysicists "believe" in time dilation but do not "believe" in space dilation? Time and space is a continuum. They are inseparable as concepts. Energy is composed of spacetime and mass. When creating mass out of energy, spacetime is also created. The amount of mass determines how much spacetime there is; and therefore how much energy was used to create it.
"Length" is not a hardcoded value just as time is not a hardcoded value. There is less "space" at the edge of a galaxy. A flat galaxy that is rotating only appears to be flat due to the interplay of time and space. It is not actually so... from the perspective that we live in.
Correct. The facts don't match the theory. Galaxies could not hang together the way they do if all they consist of is the things we've already observed in the laboratory unless we change the law of gravity [to something enormously more complex - c.f. epicycles] or postulate the existence of something that interacts gravitationally but doesn't interact with light.
Spacetime is a continuum. Yes? Speed changes the perspective of time. Mass changes the perspective of space. No modification of gravity needed and no dark matter needed.
Put simply, there is less space where there is less matter. If you can wrap your brain around time dilation, wrapping your brain around space dilation should be simple.
Trump recently stated he wanted to build a database of Muslims.
Look, I would vote for Trump just to say "fuck you" to the American political system, which means I think Trump is an absolute joke; however, Trump did NOT say that. That headline was crafted from him being asked about such things and not directly responding so the "journalist" (aka professional liar) wrote their article as "Trump did not say no so that means that "Trump recently stated he wanted to build a database of Muslims.".
My god. Research your facts. I saw that headline and just about had a cow. After reading what actually happened, I just puked and noted that this is par for the course. There can never be any sane discussion about politics. Of course, when you include Trump as a "real" candidate, you have already tossed out any semblance of seriousness and reality... but that is not the point.
Ummm. I know this is a VERY expensive idea, but you know that turn that planes make just before entering onto the runway? Yeah, that one. Why not have that section be a scale? There could even be some sort of giant electronic billboard that could show the weight... in kilograms if you are uncivilized.;)
In Western media we never actually get to hear the other side of the story and I certainly don't speak Arabic or Farsi and so even if I had access to the other side I wouldn't be able to understand their message.
I do have access to other media and translations. Their view (that they project but only the lower ranks believe) is that they are doing God's (Allah's) work. They are cleansing the world for the believers to live in a paradise ruled by Sharia law.
Ultimately, I judge people by their actions. Burning people alive, cutting off heads (especially of truly innocent people), throwing homosexuals off of tall buildings... These are not things that anyone should be doing regardless of the why and wherefore. Sure, cleansing the world of perceived evil seems to be a great and altruistic thing, but those are just words. The actions are clear and unambiguous.
Da'esh and all "movements" like it must be opposed strongly. The weird thing is that fighting them is likely the worst possible way to oppose them. Fixing the corruption so that the "regular people" can trust and support their government is the best way to fix all of this. Their is less corruption in the administration of Da'esh than there is in the governments of Iraq, Syria, etc. which is why despite their horridly evil actions, they still find continuing support amongst the populations they have invaded.
I personally use Windows EFS on my entire c:\user\myname folder, and that whole folder is backed up to a zero knowledge storage provider.
Yowsa. You trust Microsoft not to have a backdoor into the encryption scheme that they provided to you? Go ahead and tell me I am wearing a tin foil hat... Recent events have proven even creepier than the distrust that I am showing here.
The school "privatization" movement is one of the biggest scandals of the 21st century. Charter schools fail. They exist to funnel money upward, not to educate kids.
That may be true in many instances. My own son went to a charter school. My friend's son was attending that school and my friend invited me to go sit in the classroom to watch how the classes went. I was VERY impressed, so I sent my own son.
Long story short, some charter schools are actually out to try and teach.
The evidence points to some sort of weakly interacting/non-interacting form of matter.
The hypothesis of Dark Matter can not be taken seriously until there is some way to falsify it.
But until you put forth your theory with evidence to the contrary that not only explains the current observations but also doesn't break current physics it's simply your unsubstantiated opinion.
Dark Matter in fact DOES break current physics. There is no theory of matter that exists that can explain a mass that does not interact with anything and yet creates gravity.
Th universe is pure energy. "Condensing" this energy creates matter, which creates space-time. I would argue that our understanding of space-time is insufficient, not that our understanding of matter is insufficient.
Does this imply modifications to our understanding of gravity? Yes. I would argue that gravity is not a simple homogeneous basic force, rather it is merely an effect of time and space interacting with matter in ways that we do not fully understand.
CAPTCHA is moonlit: Perhaps light, which is energy minus mass (so not pure uncondensed energy) alters the quality of space-time in such a way as to appear to "slow down".
"A better explanation is -- nothing exists in any definable state until it interacts with something else."
How can something interact with something else if it is not already in a definable state? Is there some minimum zone around all "objects" that permit interaction to start and cause the collapse of the wave function only when that boundary is crossed? Would that zone be one wavelength? If so, what determines the wavelength of a particular object? Its energy state?
"Because apparently most Americans now accept this crap as perfectly normal, and have fully embraced that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."
The media campaign is clearly working. What makes you think "most Americans" accept anything as perfectly normal. Have you performed studies?
As long as most people think that most people are okay with it, nobody will fight it. The media campaigns are working.
so long as it's easy to get the bare essentials, which in the US it is.
No. It is not. It is for you. It is (currently) for me. I know many who can not easily get the bare essentials. Living a sheltered life is a wonderful thing but you need to find a way to see outside of your little bubble before making such pronouncements.
Life is grim for quite a number of people in America.
All I have to say, is if this were Jeb, he would be in jail already.
WTF?! Jeb's brother, Neil, stole 2 trillion dollars and bankrupted all Savings and Loans (while their daddy was in the White House) and was never even investigated... and you think Jeb would be in jail over an email server? Just wow.
Jeb is part of the ruling class, as is Hillary. Neither will EVER do any time in jail. The only risk they may ever face in their life is getting their heads chopped off by the masses. Literally. Vive la France or whatever. Heh.
Hm. Mass is energy contained within a defined space. Shorthand is E=MC^2.
We have measurements for distance that are constant. We have measurements for energy that are constant.
Can't the gram just be expressed as energy density? Does it have to be solid? If so, is it the expense of turning energy into matter that is preventing any properly equipped lab from having a perfect reference for the gram?
The programming has worked. You see drones as a potential vector for terrorism. Carry on citizen.
Drones are almost as good as self-driving cars would be at allowing suicide bombers to blow things up without the need for suicide. Small payload, but can still be turned into a flying death machine, and very common.
Leaving backpacks and pressure cookers laying around are effective death machines too. Shall we have registration for backpacks and pressure cookers too?
If you require registration, not only do you have a better chance at tracking the owner of a drone, but you can do more to run the owners through watch lists and add drone ownership as another weight in an equation or neural net that is trying to spot people the government needs to worry about.
I do not want to live in a jail cell to protect my freedom. All of these rules and surveillance are walls and bars restricting my freedoms. I would rather die than live in a jail cell.
I doubt that we will see any effects that are noteworthy because of our frame of reference. We are in the frame of reference of the planet Earth, which is in the frame of reference of the star Sol, which is in the frame of reference of the black hole Sagittarius A*.
Due to galactic rotation curves not being understood (Dark matter? Matter that does not interact with anything but gravity? It is to laugh.)
I do hope that this experiment does shed more light on what we call gravity.
So I might as well ask now, what distro would people recommend switching to for a desktop box? Or better yet, which ones should I stay away from?
Ouch. Rough question. My best recommendation is to build your own. Linux From Scratch can get you kickstarted. I have done this in the past and was EXCEEDINGLY happy with it.
That being said, I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon. It is not perfect. Maintaining a task bar on the top rather than the bottom is not simple as it will disappear for no known reason. I actually prefer my taskbar to be on the left side rather than top or bottom but you can't do that with Cinnamon. Of course, you can install whatever desktop environment you like...
I just bought a laptop, a Dell XPS 13 9343 (dunno, don't care). It is brand new ultralight etc. Mint installed on it with only one issue: The Broadcom wireless. Since the driver is proprietary, Mint makes you choose to add it if you want to use it. Everything else was completely automatic.
I also run Linux Mint Cinnamon on my "monster" desktop machine. Everything worked out of the box except for accelerated 3D graphics. I have an NVidia GTX 980 and the neuvua (sp?!) drivers are not suitable for playing video games. Of course, a simple search of Synaptic and a quick install later, I had my games up and running.
I have tried numerous distributions and due to laziness, I have settled on Linux Mint Cinnamon. Least amount of hassle, High-DPI (perfect for 4k monitors), decent defaults (although why gparted is not part of the default install blows me away), and it generally just works.
The best option if you have time is to build it yourself from source code.
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Awesome questions. The answer is that gravity is an illusion. What I mean by that is that gravity is not a fundamental force, it is a byproduct of mass creating space. There are no gravitons, there is only the shape of space.
I was the sort of person back in my early 20s who thought, "I can't imagine ever having children -- I mean, who would bring a child into a world that's so terrible?"
I feel guilty for bringing children into this world dominated by NSA spying, government corruption and conspiracy, and pollution of the climate. My children are looking at a terrible terrible future of enslavement while a select few end up partying and being irresponsible on my children's work.
Dual-boot is NOT where you want to go with a gaming machine, you'll be fighting drivers on the Linux side every time you get a fresh-off-the-shelf expensive hardware component.
No. You will only be fighting with drivers if you buy some odd cheap piece of garbage hardware. I have built my own PCs and have had zero problems with drivers for many years now.
My suggestion: build a Linux box with components that you know will work with Linux - for example, I stay clear of nVidia because many of those cards are a nightmare on Linux.
Share whatever you are smoking with the rest of us. The NVidia Linux drivers are the best out there other than the older Intel drivers... but Intel video is weak for gaming. Name the cards that you have had issues with if you want to be taken seriously and not a troll. I have run Linux with GTX980, GTX770, GTX260, and an 8800GTX over the past several years. I have had zero issues.
A lot of not very good engineers like these absolute answers and like things to be black or white. I run into them frequently. The worst is probably the IT security field, where things are often viewed as secure or not, with nothing in between.
To be fair, either you are dead or not... or the favorite from years ago, you are not just a little bit pregnant. You either are pregnant or you are not.
That being said, managing risk is a numbers game which is where the black and white people fail miserably. Which is essentially what you said. I am just trying to nuance the situation here a bit and point out why the infosec folks that are weak actually are weak.
Disclaimer, I work in infosec.
TF2 FTW ;)
Why is it that astrophysicists "believe" in time dilation but do not "believe" in space dilation? Time and space is a continuum. They are inseparable as concepts. Energy is composed of spacetime and mass. When creating mass out of energy, spacetime is also created. The amount of mass determines how much spacetime there is; and therefore how much energy was used to create it.
"Length" is not a hardcoded value just as time is not a hardcoded value. There is less "space" at the edge of a galaxy. A flat galaxy that is rotating only appears to be flat due to the interplay of time and space. It is not actually so... from the perspective that we live in.
Correct. The facts don't match the theory. Galaxies could not hang together the way they do if all they consist of is the things we've already observed in the laboratory unless we change the law of gravity [to something enormously more complex - c.f. epicycles] or postulate the existence of something that interacts gravitationally but doesn't interact with light.
Spacetime is a continuum. Yes? Speed changes the perspective of time. Mass changes the perspective of space. No modification of gravity needed and no dark matter needed.
Put simply, there is less space where there is less matter. If you can wrap your brain around time dilation, wrapping your brain around space dilation should be simple.
Trump recently stated he wanted to build a database of Muslims.
Look, I would vote for Trump just to say "fuck you" to the American political system, which means I think Trump is an absolute joke; however, Trump did NOT say that. That headline was crafted from him being asked about such things and not directly responding so the "journalist" (aka professional liar) wrote their article as "Trump did not say no so that means that "Trump recently stated he wanted to build a database of Muslims.".
My god. Research your facts. I saw that headline and just about had a cow. After reading what actually happened, I just puked and noted that this is par for the course. There can never be any sane discussion about politics. Of course, when you include Trump as a "real" candidate, you have already tossed out any semblance of seriousness and reality... but that is not the point.
Ummm. I know this is a VERY expensive idea, but you know that turn that planes make just before entering onto the runway? Yeah, that one. Why not have that section be a scale? There could even be some sort of giant electronic billboard that could show the weight... in kilograms if you are uncivilized. ;)
In Western media we never actually get to hear the other side of the story and I certainly don't speak Arabic or Farsi and so even if I had access to the other side I wouldn't be able to understand their message.
I do have access to other media and translations. Their view (that they project but only the lower ranks believe) is that they are doing God's (Allah's) work. They are cleansing the world for the believers to live in a paradise ruled by Sharia law.
Ultimately, I judge people by their actions. Burning people alive, cutting off heads (especially of truly innocent people), throwing homosexuals off of tall buildings... These are not things that anyone should be doing regardless of the why and wherefore. Sure, cleansing the world of perceived evil seems to be a great and altruistic thing, but those are just words. The actions are clear and unambiguous.
Da'esh and all "movements" like it must be opposed strongly. The weird thing is that fighting them is likely the worst possible way to oppose them. Fixing the corruption so that the "regular people" can trust and support their government is the best way to fix all of this. Their is less corruption in the administration of Da'esh than there is in the governments of Iraq, Syria, etc. which is why despite their horridly evil actions, they still find continuing support amongst the populations they have invaded.
It is a shame that I ran out of mod points yesterday. +1 Insightful.
I personally use Windows EFS on my entire c:\user\myname folder, and that whole folder is backed up to a zero knowledge storage provider.
Yowsa. You trust Microsoft not to have a backdoor into the encryption scheme that they provided to you? Go ahead and tell me I am wearing a tin foil hat... Recent events have proven even creepier than the distrust that I am showing here.
(CAPTCHA is outwit, lol)
Following the "Ho-hum" reaction to the Snowden revelations, including but not limited to, pervasive evidence the US was spying on its own citizens...
Was it really "Ho-hum" or was it all carefully presented and hidden away to give that impression?
The school "privatization" movement is one of the biggest scandals of the 21st century. Charter schools fail. They exist to funnel money upward, not to educate kids.
That may be true in many instances. My own son went to a charter school. My friend's son was attending that school and my friend invited me to go sit in the classroom to watch how the classes went. I was VERY impressed, so I sent my own son.
Long story short, some charter schools are actually out to try and teach.
Have a nice day (CAPTCHA is educable, so weird)
The evidence points to some sort of weakly interacting/non-interacting form of matter.
The hypothesis of Dark Matter can not be taken seriously until there is some way to falsify it.
But until you put forth your theory with evidence to the contrary that not only explains the current observations but also doesn't break current physics it's simply your unsubstantiated opinion.
Dark Matter in fact DOES break current physics. There is no theory of matter that exists that can explain a mass that does not interact with anything and yet creates gravity.
Th universe is pure energy. "Condensing" this energy creates matter, which creates space-time. I would argue that our understanding of space-time is insufficient, not that our understanding of matter is insufficient.
Does this imply modifications to our understanding of gravity? Yes. I would argue that gravity is not a simple homogeneous basic force, rather it is merely an effect of time and space interacting with matter in ways that we do not fully understand.
CAPTCHA is moonlit: Perhaps light, which is energy minus mass (so not pure uncondensed energy) alters the quality of space-time in such a way as to appear to "slow down".
"A better explanation is -- nothing exists in any definable state until it interacts with something else."
How can something interact with something else if it is not already in a definable state? Is there some minimum zone around all "objects" that permit interaction to start and cause the collapse of the wave function only when that boundary is crossed? Would that zone be one wavelength? If so, what determines the wavelength of a particular object? Its energy state?
"Because apparently most Americans now accept this crap as perfectly normal, and have fully embraced that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear."
The media campaign is clearly working. What makes you think "most Americans" accept anything as perfectly normal. Have you performed studies?
As long as most people think that most people are okay with it, nobody will fight it. The media campaigns are working.
so long as it's easy to get the bare essentials, which in the US it is.
No. It is not. It is for you. It is (currently) for me. I know many who can not easily get the bare essentials. Living a sheltered life is a wonderful thing but you need to find a way to see outside of your little bubble before making such pronouncements.
Life is grim for quite a number of people in America.
All I have to say, is if this were Jeb, he would be in jail already.
WTF?! Jeb's brother, Neil, stole 2 trillion dollars and bankrupted all Savings and Loans (while their daddy was in the White House) and was never even investigated... and you think Jeb would be in jail over an email server? Just wow.
Jeb is part of the ruling class, as is Hillary. Neither will EVER do any time in jail. The only risk they may ever face in their life is getting their heads chopped off by the masses. Literally. Vive la France or whatever. Heh.
Hm. Mass is energy contained within a defined space. Shorthand is E=MC^2.
We have measurements for distance that are constant.
We have measurements for energy that are constant.
Can't the gram just be expressed as energy density? Does it have to be solid? If so, is it the expense of turning energy into matter that is preventing any properly equipped lab from having a perfect reference for the gram?
The programming has worked. You see drones as a potential vector for terrorism. Carry on citizen.
Drones are almost as good as self-driving cars would be at allowing suicide bombers to blow things up without the need for suicide. Small payload, but can still be turned into a flying death machine, and very common.
Leaving backpacks and pressure cookers laying around are effective death machines too. Shall we have registration for backpacks and pressure cookers too?
If you require registration, not only do you have a better chance at tracking the owner of a drone, but you can do more to run the owners through watch lists and add drone ownership as another weight in an equation or neural net that is trying to spot people the government needs to worry about.
I do not want to live in a jail cell to protect my freedom. All of these rules and surveillance are walls and bars restricting my freedoms. I would rather die than live in a jail cell.
I doubt that we will see any effects that are noteworthy because of our frame of reference. We are in the frame of reference of the planet Earth, which is in the frame of reference of the star Sol, which is in the frame of reference of the black hole Sagittarius A*.
Due to galactic rotation curves not being understood (Dark matter? Matter that does not interact with anything but gravity? It is to laugh.)
I do hope that this experiment does shed more light on what we call gravity.
I was starting to become interested in Rust but then you said this:
The project transitioned from a hobby project to an official Mozilla project in 2009.
After seeing what they did to Firefox, I can only shudder to think what Rust version 42.3 will look like.
So I might as well ask now, what distro would people recommend switching to for a desktop box? Or better yet, which ones should I stay away from?
Ouch. Rough question. My best recommendation is to build your own. Linux From Scratch can get you kickstarted. I have done this in the past and was EXCEEDINGLY happy with it.
That being said, I am using Linux Mint Cinnamon. It is not perfect. Maintaining a task bar on the top rather than the bottom is not simple as it will disappear for no known reason. I actually prefer my taskbar to be on the left side rather than top or bottom but you can't do that with Cinnamon. Of course, you can install whatever desktop environment you like...
I just bought a laptop, a Dell XPS 13 9343 (dunno, don't care). It is brand new ultralight etc. Mint installed on it with only one issue: The Broadcom wireless. Since the driver is proprietary, Mint makes you choose to add it if you want to use it. Everything else was completely automatic.
I also run Linux Mint Cinnamon on my "monster" desktop machine. Everything worked out of the box except for accelerated 3D graphics. I have an NVidia GTX 980 and the neuvua (sp?!) drivers are not suitable for playing video games. Of course, a simple search of Synaptic and a quick install later, I had my games up and running.
I have tried numerous distributions and due to laziness, I have settled on Linux Mint Cinnamon. Least amount of hassle, High-DPI (perfect for 4k monitors), decent defaults (although why gparted is not part of the default install blows me away), and it generally just works.
The best option if you have time is to build it yourself from source code.
People used to make jokes that Linux is free, like a puppy. It seems like Windows 10 is free, like syphilis.
If I did not already have such an awesome .sig, I would use this as my .sig. You nailed it bro. Nothing but net.